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Creative Crafting magazine began in August/September 2009, when a group of crafting friends on the Creative Connections network decided that it would be a good idea to raise awareness of the crafting community. From this point they started work and the first issue of Creative Crafting was published in October 2009 and are still publishing today.

Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Wedding Wonders With No Wonga!

In January 2005 I first met my other half. We have bought two houses, had two children, own a dog, lizard, rabbit, hamster and a snail, but we have never got around to getting married.

In April 2012 he proposed, and we have now gone from a couple to two people engaged.

But we have a little problem when it comes to the wedding. We really do not have any spare cash to do anything too lavish. So we are using all the means that we have, pulling in all our resources and intend having as much of a Handmade Wedding as possible. We don’t want to spend too much on things that can be made.

We don’t want to waste money on things that are really not needed. Instead we would like one off pieces that are original, personal to us and made by either ourselves or our friends, and small business owners within the craft community.

We want an intimate wedding, one that has all of our personality within it and not a big commercial wedding.

Since the proposal we have been thinking a lot about our wedding and have come upwith a few ideas, but more important than ideas, are the things we actually need!

On the list so far:

Wedding Dress

Two Bridesmaids dresses, one adult, one teenager

One Flower girl Dress

One Ring Bearer’s suit

Two Ushers suits, one adult, one child

Two Best Men’s suits

Grooms suit

Flowers for Bride, Bridesmaids, Flower Girls and Button Holes

Bridal Shoes

Shoes for Bridesmaids, Ushers, Flower Girl, Ring Bearer and Groom

Tiara

Rings

Necklaces and Earrings

Venue

Food

Photographer

Cake

Transport

Save the Date Cards

Invites

Favours

Decorations for the Wedding

Hairdresser

Hairdresser

Make Up

Seating Plans

Name Places

Order of Service

Menus for the Wedding Breakfast

Entertainment Books for Children

Guestbook

Music

Things may be taken off, things may be added but at the moment this is how it stands. We are planning on doing lots of things ourselves, but there are some things that we will have to look to others for.

We are looking for creative folk who can help us make this the wedding that we want it to be, but with no Wonga!

It is going to be a challenge. We have two years to achieve this but we are determined and we will have the wedding that we want.

So welcome to Wedding Wonders with No Wonga. We hope you enjoy the creative journey to our wedding day!

It is going to be interesting, a little bit different and lots and lots of fun so why not get involved and be part of the journey.

2 comments:

Anonymous
said...

I suggest you start by taking something off your list! You don't need all that! 8 years ago I was in a very similar position to the one you describe and we organised our wedding in just 5 months for less than £3,000 with 60 guests. That included a five course meal in a hotel and £800 on a good photographer. people told us it was the best wedding they had ever been to because of the personal touches and attention to detail - those are the things that money can't buy.